Provides curriculum enhancement for teachers and career-based programs for community organizations such as hospitals, fire departments, and police departments for children in kindergarten through age 21.

Learning for Life offered at Boy Scouts of America, Blue Mountain Council

Programs that provide opportunities for students in elementary schools, secondary schools, institutions of higher education or community service programs to learn and develop through active participation in thoughtfully organized services that are conducted to meet the needs of the communities in which they live. Service learning programs are integrated into and enhance the academic curriculum of students or the education components of the service program in which participants are enrolled; and may involve projects such as preserving native plants, designing neighborhood playgrounds, teaching younger children to read, testing local water quality, creating wheelchair ramps, preparing food for people who are homeless, developing urban community gardens and starting school recycling programs. Many service learning programs are funded by Learn and Serve which is administered by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

Service Learning Programs

Programs that help nonprofit organizations develop a better understanding of the legislative process, the laws that govern the nature and extent of their involvement in public policy development and lobbying activities, and the difference between lobbying and political activities; and learn effective strategies and techniques for engaging in community organizing, or planning, developing and implementing public policy positions and/or grassroots or direct lobbying campaigns that effectively further the goals of their organization or benefit the people they serve.

Organizational Advocacy Program Development

Highschool Students partake in a 16 week intensive online course (September 7th) which teaches Financial Literacy, Healthy Thinking, Goal Setting, Family Life and History. After the 16 week course is completed. Youth travel to Africa in December for 2 weeks.

Online Course: September 7th (16 weeks – Meet every Sunday)

Trip to Senegal: December 26th 2024 - January 8th, 2025

I Can Rites of Passage Youth Group offered at Giving Gifts of Hope

Highschool Students participate in 16 week online course (September 7th) teaching Financial Literacy, Healthy Thinking, Goal Setting, Family Life and History. After the 16 week course is completed, youth travel to Africa in December for 2 weeks.

Online Course: September 7th (16 weeks – Meet every Sunday)

Programs that provide opportunities for students to pursue a course of independent study utilizing material that is communicated via the Internet.

Internet Courses

Programs, usually offered by community adult schools or as evening classes at local high schools, that provide instruction in fundamental learning skills for adults who have never attended school or have interrupted formal schooling and need to raise their level of education to increase their self-confidence and/or prepare for an occupation.  Emphasis is placed on basic reading, language and mathematics to strengthen functional skills in communication, computation and personal-social interaction.

Adult Basic Education

Provides youth who have been pushed out of high school before graduating a chance to participate in a work training program on the GRuB Farm in West Olympia, while working with Gravity to complete their GED, and work on educational and employment pathway goals. 
Youth earn up to $1,000 in an educational stipend, take food home, cook and eat together, and gain valuable social and professional skills.

GroundED offered at GRuB - Garden-Raised Bounty

Provides students who are struggling to engage and find success in the traditional school system a way to earn core credits while learning about, and contributing to, local community food solutions.

Programs that develop educational strategies and practices, including special instructional methods and materials, learning activities and diagnostic and assessment procedures which  encourage children and adolescents to maintain an acceptable grade point average, avoid excessive absenteeism or disruptive behaviors which put them at risk for suspension or expulsion and remain in school through completion their elementary and secondary education. Included are school-based dropout prevention and academic intervention programs which lead to improved performance in the areas of academic achievement, attendance, and discipline; and community based programs, often staffed by representatives from a variety of organizations including the school, the police, the probation department, family counseling agencies and delinquency diversion agencies, which monitor and/or investigate a young person's school attendance and jointly develop and implement interventions which encourage the young person to remain in school or to return to school if already a dropout.

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Learning for Life offered at Boy Scouts of America, Blue Mountain Council

I Can Rites of Passage Youth Group offered at Giving Gifts of Hope

GroundED offered at GRuB - Garden-Raised Bounty